KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian lawmakers paved the way on Thursday for a close ally of President Petro Poroshenko to become the new General Prosecutor, a position seen by the West as crucial to tackling entrenched corruption. …read more Source: The...

Ukrainian lawmakers paved the way Thursday for a close ally of President Petro Poroshenko to become the new General Prosecutor, a position seen by the West as crucial to tackling entrenched corruption …read more Source: The Daily...

DEVESELU, Romania, May 12 (Reuters) – The United States will switch on a $800 million missile shield in Romania on Thursday, part of an umbrella from Greenland to the Azores against Iranian rockets that Russia aims to knock out its nuclear weapons.At the remote Deveselu air base in Romania, senior U.S. and NATO officials will declare...

Britain, the United States, France and Ukraine blocked a Russian proposal at the United Nations to blacklist Syrian rebel groups Jaish al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham for links to ISIL and al Qaeda militants, diplomats said on May 11 …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...

The Bulgarian representative at this year’s edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, Poli Genova, will perform in the second semifinal taking place in Stockholm on Thursday evening. Genova, who had previously represented Bulgaria in 2011, will compete with the song “If Love Was a Crime”. The Bulgarian representative will be the twelfth out...

Paintings including masterpieces by Rubens and Tintoretto that were stolen from a Verona museum last year have been found in Ukraine, Italy’s culture minister said Wednesday. “It is a great day,” the minister, Dario Franceschini, said in a statement. “The artworks will soon be back in the Castelvecchio (museum) in Verona.” The recovery of...